Via the experimentation of the movement+music+visual collective in Ireland, we see another great, free tool built on Apple’s Quartz Composer developer tool. Tryplex is a set of macro patches, all open source, that makes Kinect skeleton tracking easier. There’s even a puppet tool and skeleton recorder.

Aesthetically, the video below is all stick-figure stuff (which is the only reason I can imagine why it’s getting any dislikes on YouTube). But it shouldn’t take much imagination to see the potential here.

For one example, see the video at top — something that must make Terry Gilliam get hot and bothered (or wish he had been born later).

Features:

Synapse support, for interoperability with other Mac and Windows visual apps and depth image visibility

Also OpenNI NITE skeletal tracking does user calibration more quickly for me with more recent versions of OpenNI & NITE than it did back when I first started messing with this stuff in late 2010. This, along with some continuing issues with OSCeleton on certain platforms, means I've now stopped routing data through to unity using OSC, and just do it directly inside uUnity using the stuff I linked to earlier.